Thoughts on Antiquity, Patristics, putting things online, freedom of speech, information access, and more
For some years now I have commissioned translations of previously untranslated texts. These I make freely available on the web. A correspondent has suggested that I should make it possible for generous-minded people to contribute. As an experiment, I’ve added a “Donate” button on the right hand side. Not quite sure how I feel about [...]
My site will probably migrate to another server over the next week or two. Expect some downtime on all my domains, including this blog.
An email draws my attention to a conference on Patristics studies in Argentina on 8-10th August. This is a little far for me, but details can be found here.
A correspondant asks me whether I am going to the British Patristics Conference. I hadn’t even heard of it, although a google search reveals that an email with a call for papers must have gone out in January. The website does not reveal who is organising it, but makes a link to the “Second National Conference” apparently held [...]
A group of post-graduate theology students wrote to me as follow: I wonder if you might put in a good word for our new publication, in a single volume, of the complete English text of Irenaeus’ Against Heresies. The text is freshly re-typeset, but retains the complete translation from the Ante-Nicene Fathers series, modified only [...]
The 16th International Patristics Conference (for summer 2011) is now putting out invitations for papers. The infinitely smarter-looking web site is here. The conference takes place in Oxford. The days are filled with papers, each of 15 minutes. There is a book display by publishers, often with very good deals. Accomodation is available (at a [...]
A customer for my CDROM of the Fathers wrote to ask if I had a PDF of vol. 2 of Cyril’s Commentary on John, since I had scanned it for my site. Luckily for him I had the chance to look, and found the images first shot. I’ve now uploaded a searchable PDF of this volume [...]
Juvenaly has written to tell me that he is producing a revised and improved version of John Damascene’s work “On the orthodox faith.” About half of the work has been revised so far. It can be found here. In the past he has been working on revising the dreadful English version of Cyril of Alexandria’s [...]
The volume of indexes of the Revue de l’Orient Chrétien has now appeared online here. Thanks to Albocicade for the tip.
Most readers will be aware that I sell a CDROM of the collection of the Fathers that I have online. Quite a few copies have been sold lately. So I’d like to thank all those readers who have recently bought one. These sales are helping directly to pay for the translation of Origen’s Homilies on [...]